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• sug|gest´er — sug|gest «suhg JEHST, suh », transitive verb. 1. to bring to mind; call up the thought of: »The thought of summer suggests swimming, tennis, and hot weather. »Democratic Athens, oligarchic Rome, suggest to us Pericles and Brutus (James Bryce). 2 …   Useful english dictionary

• sug|gest — «suhg JEHST, suh », transitive verb. 1. to bring to mind; call up the thought of: »The thought of summer suggests swimming, tennis, and hot weather. »Democratic Athens, oligarchic Rome, suggest to us Pericles and Brutus (James Bryce). 2. to put… …   Useful english dictionary

• sug|ar|bird — «SHUG uhr BURD», noun. 1. any one of various small birds that feed on the nectar of flowers, such as the honey eater and certain South African sunbirds. 2. U.S. the evening grosbeak (believed by the Indians to like maple sugar) …   Useful english dictionary

• sug|ar|y — «SHUG uhr ee», adjective. 1. consisting of or containing much sugar. 2. like sugar; sweet. 3. Figurative. outwardly, but not sincerely, pleasant or agreeable; deceitfully or flatteringly pleasant: »a sugary greeting. 4. Figurative. excessively or …   Useful english dictionary

• sug|ges|tion — «suhg JEHS chuhn, suh », noun. 1. the act of suggesting; the putting into the mind of an idea, course of action, or the like: »The trip was made at her suggestion. 2. a thing suggested; proposal: »The picnic was an excellent suggestion. 3. the… …   Useful english dictionary

• sug|ar-loaf — sugar loaf, 1. a solid, cone shaped mass of hard, refined sugar. It is the form in which sugar was generally sold during most of the period from the late Middle Ages to the middle of the 1800 s. 2. something shaped like a sugar loaf, especially:… …   Useful english dictionary

• sug|ar-can|dy — sugar candy, 1. candy made by boiling pure sugar and allowing it to crystallize. 2. Figurative. anything like sugar candy; something sweet, pleasant, or delicious: »Lord John Russell, to whom a rap at the University was always sugar candy… …   Useful english dictionary

• sug·ar·plum — /ˈʃʊgɚˌplʌm/ noun, pl plums [count] US old fashioned : a small, sweet candy that is usually shaped like a ball …   Useful english dictionary

• Tau Sug — ▪ people       one of the largest of the Muslim cultural linguistic groups of the Philippines. Numbering about 500,000 in the late 20th century, they live in the Sulu Archipelago southwest of Mindanao, mainly in the Jolo island cluster.… …   Universalium

• sugar — sug•ar [[t]ˈʃʊg ər[/t]] n. 1) chem. biochem. a sweet, crystalline substance, C12H22O11, obtained from the juice or sap of many plants, esp. commercially from sugarcane and the sugar beet; sucrose 2) chem. biochem. any other plant or animal… …   From formal English to slang